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title: State the cause of hay fever. — Water, small injuries, hay fever, grow… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the cause of hay fever. Exam question 4 of lesson 290 «Water, small injuries, hay fever, growing up and eyesight» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Exam question 4 · Water, small injuries, hay fever, growing up and eyesight

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State the cause of hay fever.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** state, cause · **To what, where:** cause, hay fever

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 290 «Water, small injuries, hay fever, growing up and eyesight» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/290-first-aid-water-and-growing-up/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:290-first-aid-water-and-growing-up:e4:1
# text = State the cause of hay fever.
1	State	state	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the cause of hay fever |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cause=Topic |
| 2 | **cause** |  |  | hay fever |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Germs passed on by a sneeze

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:290-first-aid-water-and-growing-up:e4:o1:1
# text = Germs passed on by a sneeze
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass on** | participle |  | Germs *not said here* |  |  |  | by a sneeze | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A fever caused by hot weather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:290-first-aid-water-and-growing-up:e4:o2:1
# text = A fever caused by hot weather
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | participle |  | a fever *not said here* |  |  |  | by hot weather | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Pollen, which brings sneezing and itchy eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:290-first-aid-water-and-growing-up:e4:o3:1
# text = Pollen, which brings sneezing and itchy eyes
1	Pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	sneezing	sneezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	itchy	itchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | Pollen | sneezing and itchy eyes |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sneezing=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hay eaten by the sufferer, which irritates the nose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:290-first-aid-water-and-growing-up:e4:o4:1
# text = Hay eaten by the sufferer, which irritates the nose
1	Hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sufferer	sufferer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	irritates	irritate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | participle |  | Hay *not said here* |  |  |  | by the sufferer | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **irritate** | present | the sufferer | the nose |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nose=Experiencer |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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